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The vinyl revival has spun the country’s independent record stores into
recovery for the first time in a decade.

Fewer than 300 independent music shops are left in Britain after most
succumbed to the collapse in CD sales from 1.8 billion in 2006 to 833
million last year.

Competition from websites such as Amazon and eBay, as well as digital music
services including iTunes and Spotify, proved too strong for many of the
stores. Thriving demand for vinyl — deemed a dead format outside the DJ
circuit until recently — has triggered an unlikely fightback. Sales at
independent music stores surged 44